Senior Backend Engineer, Risk - Remote-First

Coinbase, Inc.; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize real-time risk systems at crypto-market scale. The role requires leadership across architecture, fraud prevention, and incident response, collaborating with data science, ML, product, and compliance.

You'll mentor engineers, drive end-to-end projects, and ensure performance and reliability while delivering business-ready features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software engineering experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience leading incident response and post-mortems.
• Experience with real-time risk/detection systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability
• Drive architectural decisions that shape Coinbase's risk detection and mitigation systems, translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable working architectures that balance fraud prevention with user experience
• Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems (real-time decisioning engines, model-driven fraud detection) and reactive solutions (incident response tooling, compliance-driven risk controls)
• Build AI-native risk systems that leverage fleets of agents to automate complex detection and response workflows, significantly reducing the need for manual intervention
• Strengthen the team by mentoring engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews, writing technical design documents for complex systems, and championing engineering best practices across the codebase
• Own system quality and operational excellence by proactively addressing technical debt, driving bug triaging, and leading incident response and post-mortems to ensure platform reliability

Skills

Backend

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Incident response

Real-time risk

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize real-time risk systems at crypto-market scale. The role requires leadership across architecture, fraud prevention, and incident response, collaborating with data science, ML, product, and compliance.

You'll mentor engineers, drive end-to-end projects, and ensure performance and reliability while delivering business-ready features.